Music fans in Europe download 800,000 songs from iTunes in first week
Music fans in the UK, France and Germany have purchased and downloaded more than 800,000 songs from the iTunes Music Store since its launch a week ago, parent Apple Computer Inc. reports. The biggest market was in the U.K., where fans bought 450,000 songs.
The iTunes Music Store in the U.K., France and Germany offers over 700,000 songs, a la carte pricing and integration with Apple`s iPod playback device.
Apple reported last March that after a year in the U.S., fans had bought 70 million songs from iTunes. Apple charge €0.99 (£0.79) for each song.
As with the U.S site, the European site allows users to play songs on up to five personal computers, burn a song onto CDs an unlimited number of times, burn the same playlist up to seven times and listen to their music on an unlimited number of iPods.
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